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Test Bank For Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice 6th Edition By Boyd, Consists of 43 Complete Chapters, ISBN: 978-1451192438
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PSYCHIATRIC NURSING: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE 6TH EDITION BY MARY ANN BOYD PHD LATEST UPDATE
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental
health care and are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission
on Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this information when
they identify that the report recommended an increase in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association9s Statement on Psychiatric
Nursing Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental
health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various
theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the following as
most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
A) Sigmund Freud9s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale9s Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers9 A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau9s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that
influenced the development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the
effects of World War II, which of the following would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health
nursing and its place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate
to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by
Mary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the
first training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the
publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has
played in nursing9s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated
with mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud9s views on the causes of mental illnesses
7. A psychiatricmental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs
that integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy
People 2020. Which type of program would be least appropriate?
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A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in
psychiatricmental health nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being
important? Select all that apply.
A) Research findings
B) Expert opinion
C) Clinical experiences
D) Patient data
E) Established routines
9. The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health
nursing practice. Which event occurred first?
A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
B) Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Practice
C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University
D) Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet
Bailey
10. A nurse is preparing a presentation about the current status of mental health services in
the United States. Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
A) Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
B) Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
C) Mental health care primarily focuses on the cure of mental illness.
D) Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
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11. A group of students are reviewing the goals identified by the New Freedom Commission
on Mental Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify
which of the following as a goal?
A) Mental health is viewed as one component of overall health.
B) The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
C) Screening is of greater importance than assessment and referral for services.
D) Disparities in mental health services are decreased.
12. The following are important legislative and policy efforts influencing current mental
health care. Which of the following is the most recent?
A) Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
B) New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
C) Action for Mental Health
D) Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
13. As part of a career day presentation to a group of nursing students, a psychiatricmental
health nurse plans to describe how this specialty developed. Which individual would the nurse
describe as playing a major role in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric
nurses?
A) Mary Adelaide Nutting
B) Hildegarde Peplau
C) Harriet Bailey
D) Linda Richards
14. A psychiatricmental health nurse is asked to be a guest speaker at a community fund-
raising event for mental health services. Which of the following would the nurse emphasize as
the primary goal of mental health services?
A) Access to affordable mental health care
B) Removal of exclusions because of preexisting conditions
C) Recovery from mental illness
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